Dr. Kumar Mahabir presented a research paper on\u00a0the marginalisation and exclusion of Indians by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in the CSEC and CAPE History and Literature syllabi.
\nHis presentation was made at the \u201cConference on Inclusive Education: Achieving Education for All\u201d at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, on February 15, 2017.
\nThe conference was organised by the School of Education of the UWI \u00a0and Potsdam University in New York.
\nMahabir is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Education Programmes at the Corinth campus of the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT).
\nIn his presentation, Mahabir argued that Indians in the Caribbean constitute about one and a half million persons in the English-speaking Caribbean. They constitute about half of the population in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname, and form the largest minority in Jamaica, St Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada.
\nUsing content analysis and Paulo Freire\u2019s theoretical framework, his presentation examined the extent Indians, and their indentured forebears, have been excluded in Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) CSEC and CAPE History and Literature syllabi.
\nMahabir said that in its mandate to pursue socially-just educational practices, The United Nations (UNESCO), the World Forum in Dakar, and the World Conference on Education for All in Thailand, have recommended that minority ethnic groups should not be disadvantaged in receiving an education as well as in being excluded in the content of the curriculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Kumar Mahabir presented a research paper on\u00a0the marginalisation and exclusion of Indians by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in the CSEC and CAPE History and Literature syllabi. His presentation was made at the \u201cConference on Inclusive Education: Achieving Education for All\u201d at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}